A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom Series) (Kindle Edition)

by Malcolm Boyd (Author), Gene Robinson (Foreword), Bo Young (Editor), Dan Vera (Editor), Mark Thompson (Introduction)

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A Prophet in His Own Land is highly recommended for church libraries, larger public libraries, and academic libraries collecting in United States 20th-century religion. --Dave Combe, GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Association.

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Gay/straight, Christian/atheist, coffeehouse or pulpit, poet or prose, Malcolm Boyd is an exemplar of the American tradition of life's adventure and free-thinking. He is a gift to anyone who takes the time to encounter him in his writings. To celebrate Malcolm Boyd's 85th birthday, and in recognition of the Lambda Literary Foundation's awarding of the Pioneer Award to him and his partner Mark Thompson for lifetime achievement, White Crane Books is proud to announce the publication of A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader, a compendium of five decades of his prose, poetry, prayers and interviews. This is the first collection of Boyd's writings assembled under one cover, offering the gamut of the man's heart, mind and soul to first-time readers or long-time readers alike. Compiled by Bo Young and Dan Vera, editors of White Crane: the Journal of Gay Wisdom & Culture, the collection begins with the first writings Boyd produced, reflecting presciently on his insider's knowledge and experience in the mot

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• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 466 KB
• Publisher: White Crane Books / Lethe Press (May 12, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0019HVBR4
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #174,028 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The first collected writings of a community elder, June 26, 2008

By	B. Young "White Crane Journal" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom) (Library Binding)

This is the first and only such collection of Malcolm Boyd's five decades of writings, spanning from his early years in Hollywood, through the strife of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Stonewall, and now as writer and poet in residence at the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

From the review in EDGE: Boyd was very active in the Civil Rights movement. His descriptions of the utter degradation and hateful actions against blacks in the South in his "Blind No More" series really opened my eyes. This is fascinating stuff, and well worth the price of the book in itself.

Essays, poetry, magazine articles and interview give as full a picture of this important cultural voice as has ever been published.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A collection that is well worth considering, January 8, 2009

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom) (Library Binding)

Most of Malcolm Boyd's eighty-five year lifetime has been spent writing, and "A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader" collects some of the best of Boyd's work under one cover for the first time. From the five years of his body of work, consisting of a wide range of media from prose and poetry to prayers and interviews, Boyd is a voice of the times, and one of the few gay writers to not be afraid of putting his name out there openly. "A Prophet in His Own Land" is a collection that is well worth considering.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Spiritually Inspiring Gay History, November 8, 2008

By	Salvatore Sapienza - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom) (Library Binding)

I have been aware of Malcolm Boyd's activism in the gay community for quite some time, but I had not read much of his writing. "A Prophet in His Own Land" is a wonderful compilation of Boyd's work (essays, poems and writings) spanning half a century. Each section of the book is devoted to a different decade, starting with Boyd's career in Hollywood in the 1950's and taking us through his political and social activism in the following decades, all the way up to the present day. It's nice to see the progression of Boyd's writing from decade to decade, and I learned a lot about gay history along the way. What I most enjoyed, however, were the present-day interviews with Boyd by editors Bo Young and Dan Vera which begin each section of the book. I found myself with highlighter out, marking Boyd's inspiring words of wisdom, especially where he speaks of cultivating simplicity and dedicating our lives to service of others. A leader in the gay spirituality, Boyd asks, "Why does religion separate people instead of unitying them?" and reminds the gay community that "We are needed by Christ to help people who wonder: how can we relate the sexual and the spiritual in our lives?" I highly recommend "A Prophet in His Own Land" not only to those students of gay history and activism, but especially to those of us looking to reconcile our spirituality and sexuality.
-Salvatore Sapienza, author of Seventy Times Seven: A Novel